asus geforce 2 mx on a ax59 pro motherbord

[glassius]

I just bought asus geforce 2 mx v 7100 that is runnin on a ax 59 pro board. But, it wont work, after about 5min on, it hangs up, and when i try to restart nothing happends, no signals to the monitor. It's not the drivers or windows, because it also happened in dos😀

 

[Priit]

I had GF2MX with that board and it worked pretty fine (no lockups). Maybe your videocard is overheating ? Does 3D graphics under windows are disorting the soundcard's output ? (I had that problem caused by weak AGP shielding) It's also possible that your mobo can't handle GF's power consumtion...

 

[glassius]

if it is the mobo that isnt providing enough power, is there anything i can do, or do i have to buy a new mobo?😕

 

[Priit]

If mobo cannot power the videocard, there's nothing you can do about it (either try another V-card or mobo). I've read somewhere that GF2MX should need only 4 watts but i'm not sure that it's right. Nvidia's v-cards on SS7 platvorm are sometimes real pain in the a**, you will be much happier with 3Dfx-ones on that. Your problem may also be related with AGP compability: AFAIK officially all new Nvidia v-cards requie AGP 2.0-compatible chipset, but VIA MVP3 is only AGP 1.0 compatible.

 

[Priit]

BTW what version of the board you have ? What BIOS are you using ?

 

[glassius]

i dondt know what version it is, i only found a this on the board: aopen ax59 pro 99804, and its the newest bios

 

[Priit]

Damn, I don't have that mobo near-by anymore 🙁 There were some important fixes in revision newer than 2.20...

 

[glassius]

I have heard that is should be posible to increase the I/O voltage on the mobo, does anyone know how i do that?